Flea Markets Quotes

• At a flea market I always head for the junk jewelry table first.

  Ethel Merman

  Junk, Tables, Fleas

  Ethel Merman, George Eells (1979). “Merman: an autobiography”, Berkley Pub Group

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• But we used to go to flea markets and things, and look for old 78 records that had silly song titles.

  Neil Innes

  Song, Silly, Titles

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• When I go to a country, I go to flea markets, antique stores. I am always looking for something.

  Ursula Andress

  Country, Antiques, Fleas

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• My favorite things often have a story behind them and are usually handmade or discovered at a flea market.

  Amy Sedaris

  Stories, Fleas, Favorites Things

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• I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.

  Zoe Kravitz

  Sunday, Fleas, Gals

  "Tribeca Film Festival Cast Interview: Beware! The Gonzo". Interview with Caitlin Colford, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2010.

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• I am not sure how much I would like being married if I wasn't married to him. A man who likes flea markets and isn't gay? I knew I was lucky.

  Lynda Barry

  Gay, Men, Lucky

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• I actually picked up copies of Decline I and II at a flea market once. I walked out without paying.

  Penelope Spheeris

  Aggravation, Fleas, Decline

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• My mother used to take me to flea markets in my stroller, and I would just rummage through the piles. You've got to dig through the overstuffed racks that everyone else just walks by. It's the only way to find the cool stuff.

  Lily Collins

  Mother, Stuff, Way

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• It's an addiction. I love clothes. I like to go down Melrose and look in all the windows and I go to different flea markets. I have lots of costumes. You never know when you're going to have to dress up like a milkmaid from the 1600s.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Clothes, Addiction, Dresses

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I always like my trailer or hotel room to have fresh flowers or pillows I find at a local flea market - anything to personalize the environment.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Flower, Rooms, Fleas

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• Your rights matter, because you never know when you're going to need them.

  Edward Snowden

  Rights, Needs, Matter

  "Why 'I Have Nothing to Hide' Is a Terrible Defense of Minor Privacy Violations" by Natalie Shoemaker, bigthink.com.

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• Whether you're going to a museum or a flea market or flipping through a book, always be on the lookout for something special.

  Kelly Wearstler

  Book, Museums, Special

  "Women in Design: Kelly Wearstler". Interview with Mayer Rus, www.elledecor.com. October 18, 2010.

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• When I find something at a flea market or an antique store, it feels more special and I'm more inclined to want to wear it.

  Erin Wasson

  Special, Antiques, Want

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• When I take on a design project, I have to jet from the bookstore to the hardware shop to the lamp store and back again just to collect a small portion of the many items I need to fill a home. But, when you hit the flea market, they're all right there. From booth to booth, you have the bases covered.

  Nate Berkus

  Home, Design, Fleas

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• You never know when you're going to get an opportunity.

  Dwight Henry

  Opportunity, Costumes, Tough Moments

  "Dwight Henry, ‘Beasts Of The Southern Wild’ Star, Discusses His Journey From Unknown Baker To Acclaimed Actor". Interview With Mike Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 27, 2012.

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• Beauty is startling. She wears a gold shawl in the summer and sells seven kinds of honey at the flea market. She is young and old at once, my daughter and my grandmother. In school she excelled in mathematics and poetry. . . Beauty will dance with anyone who is brave enough to ask her.

  J. Ruth Gendler

  Summer, Daughter, School

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• The other week I wrote a piece on a photograph I got at a flea market, and I got about 70 hits. I think a lot of people must be interested in flea markets.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Thinking, People, Pieces

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I went to the flea market in the morning and charged tourists money to take pictures of me. I looked pretty wild, with hair down to my waist, Indian robes, a floor-length fur coat. There must be lots of photos of me out there.

  Wolfgang Beltracchi

  Morning, Hair, Photo Of Me

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• I love vintage shopping in flea markets, vintage stores and even Ebay.

  Chelsea Leyland

  Ebay, Vintage, Shopping

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• Some kids spent their allowance going to see 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'; I spent mine on a great-looking lamp I'd found at the flea market and a ceramic bowl from a neighborhood garage sale.

  Nate Berkus

  Kids, Indiana, Fleas

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• I first heard the banjo on the Beverly Hillbillies, and from then on I was banjo-conscious. But I didn't actually get one until my grandfather gave me one, almost by mistake. He knew I was playing a little bit of guitar. He saw a banjo at a flea market and bought it. I took it home with me and just never put it down. I was fifteen.

  Bela Fleck

  Mistake, Home, Guitar

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I used to collect frames. I've been collecting accessories since I was 11-years-old, creeping around flea markets and sales and everything. Whenever I saw unusual eyeglass frames, I bought them.

  Iris Apfel

  Years, Eyeglasses, Fleas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was always interested in fashion and beauty. I was fifteen when I was scouted in a flea market. Two years later, I arrived in New York. I was in awe because it was like another planet.

  Candice Swanepoel

  Fashion, New York, Years

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• You cannot imagine what sorrow and anger seize one's whole soul when a great idea, which one has long and piously revered, is picked up by some bunglers and dragged into the street, to more fools like themselves, and one suddenly meets it in the flea market, unrecognizable, dirty, askew, absurdly presented, without proportion, without harmony, a toy for stupid children.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Children, Stupid, Dirty

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• 'Priced to sell' - just the phrase makes me smile. When a dealer says all the items in his booth are priced to sell, he means he's tagged them as aggressively as he can to get you to buy them. Don't worry, though, I still haggle. You have to. That's the point of a flea market.

  Nate Berkus

  Mean, Worry, Fleas

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